Eloise shares new single ‘Giant Feelings’

Photo Credit: Charlotte Patmore

Eloise recently announced details of her upcoming album Drunk On A Flight with its title track and video (here). Today she shares the next offering from this emotionally exposing and confident debut, new single ‘Giant Feelings’.

Nowhere better can you hear Eloise’s sonic evolution from her earlier jazz-tinged sound than on this song. It’s a self confessed “bigger and braver leap” into honest pop music, a leap that should serve the 23 year old songwriter very well indeed. Inspired by a line from Lena Dunham’s seminal series Girls and built around an anthemic, synth-powered chorus, ‘Giant Feelings’ nails the fury of being left pining following a break-up. Watch the video here.

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“‘Giant Feelings’ is a song drenched in frustration I think…frustration that you fell for someone you shouldn’t have, frustration that it didn’t work, frustration that you still feel everything towards them. It was the first song I wrote for this album that came out like a pop song because I had recently been getting into that way of writing. So what you’re hearing is me attempting to write pop and Conor making the song soar through his production.” Eloise

Drunk On A Flight as a whole is a coming of age album about embracing the moment; a heartbreak record that empowers listeners to luxuriate in their feelings – however messy or complicated they may be. As the Billie Eilish and Burt Bacharach-approved star puts it today, “This is the sound of me putting my flag in the ground as an artist.”

Eloise’s debut EP, This Thing Called Living, came in 2019, introducing the world to her entrancing, honeyed tones. It received support from Eilish, who took to Instagram to cover ‘Subside’. Two years on came Somewhere In-Between, a deeply romantic, nine-track collection recorded with Bruno Major. Billed as “a growing pains EP”, it saw Eloise exploring emotional grey areas and blending the warmth of acoustic guitar with forward-thinking, electronic production.

Last year, after missing a return flight from L.A, Eloise ended up in the studio with former school pal Max Margolis where they were writing songs to pitch to major pop artists including Miley Cyrus. This experience gave her the confidence and freedom to break her learnt songwriting habits and embrace a more classic pop structure. She returned to the UK a week later where she challenged herself to continue writing every single day, quickly amassing a pool of more than 50 songs, from which she assembled Drunk On A Flight with South London producer Conor Albert.

Throughout the album, Eloise’s supple, feather-light coo imbues material with a comforting timelessness as well as an impressive universality, despite confessional lyrics that deal daringly in specifics. “My songwriting has always been honest, but this feels raw – like I’m exploring all the shades of emotion.”

For Eloise herself, Drunk On A Flight will always represent the rewards of embracing the chaos of the universe; of leaping into the unknown proving that life is a succession of sliding door moments; of split-second decisions and serendipitous diversions, each of which shape your path and irrevocably influence the person you become and the future you inhabit.